Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has been criticised for eliminating police teams sent to crime hot spots.

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Getting an early fix on where robberies and shootings occur may let people discover crime hot spots before they boil over, says Drane.

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As part of its CompStat system, it combined mapping and the analysis of crime statistics to target "hot spots" by concentrating patrol, detective and narcotics units.

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He learned about the former New York City police commissioner William Bratton and the Compstat approach to policing that he had championed in the nineties, which centered on mapping crime and focussing resources on the hot spots.

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Under Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, "hot spots policing" proliferated, in which officers flood high-crime areas tracked by a computer reporting system.

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